January 15, 2025 • 62 mins
As The Remnant we prepare for the coming storm and trust in the Lord as the storm rages around us. We have confident expectation of rescue and protection as we endure until the end.
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Thank you, Thank you. We thank you for who you are.
We thank you for loving us when we were unlovable.
We thank you for sending you Shure to die for us,
to wipe away our sins so that we could come
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home and be reconciled to you, have access to you. Lord.
We thank you for the Cross, the empty tomb, the
upper Room. We thank you for what you did and
what you're doing. We thank you for your love and
your grace and your mercy and our salvation. We just
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thank you, Lord, and we love you with all of
our hearts, all of our minds, all of our souls,
and our spirits, with everything that is in us, we
love you. Thank you for sending the Holy Spirit to
walk with us, to teach us, to guide us, to
remind us of you and your words. So we take
our thoughts captive right now to the obedience of Messiah,
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claiming the mind of Messiah, casting down every vain imagination
that would exalt itself above the knowledge of Ellon, God
Most High, our Father. Let this word go forth, Let
your spirit flow. Do whatever it is you want to
do tonight, Lord the Holy Spirit, have your way, say
what you want to say. Let your will be done.
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Protect us the homes, family's pest possessions of technology. Don't
let the enemy interfere with anything we say or do,
especially this time together. And I pray all these things,
and you shoe his name, Amen.
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So we're still talking about the storm warning that the
Lord gave us, both natural and supernatural. Merriam Webster Dictionary
defines the storm warning as a notification that gives warning
of an approaching storm, a happening that warns of a
difficult or involved state of affairs lying ahead. I think
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that pretty much covers it in the natural. We see
them on TV, the internet, or you have a weather
app and we're warned the possibility of severe weather, which
gives us time to prepare, doesn't mean it will happen,
but it could happen, and you should prepare accordingly. With
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the Bible, if there's a warning in there, it will happen,
and even more so we should prepare accordingly. Go with
me to a storm warning from the Lord Matthew twenty four,
starting verse four. Take heed. Then no one deceives you,
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for many will come in my name saying I am
the Messiah, and will deceive many. And you will hear
of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are
not troubled, for all these things must come to pass.
But the end is not yet. For nation will rise
against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there'll be famines
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and pestilences and earthquakes in various places. All these are
the beginning of the sorrows. Then they will deliver you
up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be
hated by all nations. For my name's sake. Then many
will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate
one another. Then many prophets, false prophets. I'm sorry, let's
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be clear here. False prophets will rise up and deceive many.
And because lawlessness, lawlessness which is sin, will abound, the
love of many will grow cold. But he or she
who endures to the end shall be saved. And this
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gospel of the Kingdom will be preached in all the
world as a witness to all the nations. And then
the end will come. Well, when is that Lord, What
are the signs that we should look for? Well, if
you jump down of verse thirty six, he gives us indicators.
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But of that day and hour no one knows, not
even the angels of heaven, but my Father only. But
as the days of Noah were, so also will be
the coming of the Son of Man be. For as
in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking,
marrying and giving in marriage until the day that Noah
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entered the ark. And remember that was seven days before
the rain came, that the Lord locked them in and
did not know the flood came and took them all away,
So also will the coming of the Son of Man be.
Then two men will be in a field, one will
be taken. In the other left, two women will be
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grinding at the mill. One will be taken and the
other left. Watch therefore, for you do not know the
hour your Lord is coming. But know this that if
the master of the house had known what hour the
thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed
his house to be broken into. Therefore, you also be
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ready for the Sun of Man. It's coming at an
hour you do not expect the days of Noah. So
also will it be in the days of this coming
of the Sun of Man. We see it again in
Luke seventeen, starting verse twenty two, Lord said, the days
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will come when you will desire to see one of
the days of the Sun of Man, and you will
not see it. And they will say to you look
here or look there. Do not go after them or
follow them. For as the lightning flashes out of one
part of under heaven shines to the other part under heaven,
so also the sun of Man will be in his day.
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But first he must suffer many things and be rejected
by this generation. And as it was in the days
of Noah, so it will be also in the day
of the Son of Man. They ain't they drank, they married, wives,
they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah
entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. Likewise,
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as it was also in the days of Lot. They ate,
they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built.
But on the day that Lot went out of salm,
soldom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed
them all. Even so, will it be in the day
when of the Son of Man is revealed, people will say, look,
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there is the Son of Man. False messiahs, false teachers,
false preachers, false prophets have arisen throughout history. They'll talk
to you about a Messiah. They'll talk to you about
a Christ or a Christ's consciousness, but they won't be
referring to Jesus up Nazareth is Shua. But the Messiah
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has told us to look for these signs. He will
be the only one who can do these things. As
the lightning flashes. When he returns, it will be sudden,
it will be a very extreme suddenly, and everyone will
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know it. Lightning is common for storms. It's sudden, it's visible,
and it's frightening at times. And when the Lord returns,
many will be frightened. He will come quickly and obviously,
and it'll be no doubt as to what has occurred.
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But interestingly, in Luke seventeen he refers to in Noah's
days in the days of Lot. If you want to
know about Noah, go to Genesis chapter six through nine,
and then Genesis eighteen, verse sixteen through nineteen through twenty nine.
For Lot. These are the stories of cataclysmic judgment against
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the wickedness of mankind. There's an interesting substory with Lot
that I think really applies to where we are today,
both in the world and the church. They were told
not to look back that once they started leaving, don't
look back. Lot's wife lingered behind, and she looked back.
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She looked back longingly at Sodom in Genesis nineteen, verse
twenty six, and she turned into a pillar of salt.
More than likely she got consumed in the fire and
the brimstone, or her disobedience just turned her into a
pillar of salt. There's a pillar there that they say
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is Lot's wife. And I don't think anybody's ever done
like a sonogram or you know, did something and look
on the inside of the rock. But be that as
it may, it's an indicator to me. I believe Lot's
wife represents part of the church that it's supposed to
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know better. They're supposed to be looking towards the blessed coming,
looking towards the blessed hope, looking for getting out of
this world. But some are going to look back longingly
at their friends, their families, their homes, their cars, whatever
it may be, and it's going to cost them dearly.
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Lot's wife probably had family there, her son in laws
were there, they didn't come with them. They mocked a lot,
and the wives left. Anyway, You're going to have family
members do the same. You can't look back. Lots His
wife represents those who are attached to their earthly things,
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whose hearts are still in this world, and they will
perish because they're looking towards their old life and not
the higher calling. In the days of now, people paid
little attention to God. They face judgment as a result
of their lack of concern about the things of God.
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And it'll be just the same when you show it
comes back Look twenty one. Sorry verse twenty four, but
take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down
with carousing and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and
that day capital d come on you unexpectedly, for it
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will come as a snare on all those who dwell
on the face of the whole earth. Watch therefore, and
pray always that you may be counted wordy to escape
all these things that will come to pass, and to
stand before the Son of Man. I believe we are
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living right now in a time so specific and so
close to what's being described here, maybe more so than
ever before. And throughout the New Testament and even the
Old Testament, the warnings of the prophets, the warnings of
Paul and James and John and Peter. We're all to
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prepare us for that day. How often you hear about
it anymore? How many churches talk about that? That's not
a feel good message. How many of them remind you, Oh,
by the way, you got to get ready. You better
be ready, you better be packed to go. Train's coming.
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It's going to roll in, and it's gonna roll right out.
No time to say goodbye, no time to take pictures.
Whatever you need you'll have with you. But the unsaved,
ungodly world, they could care less, and Paul and talking
to the gentile believers in Rome starts his message out
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about that in romans Ion, starting verse twenty eight. And
since they did not see fit to acknowledge God or
consider him worth knowing as their creator, God gave them
over to a depraved mind to do things which are
improper and repulsive, until they were filled, permeated, saturated with
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every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice,
and mean spiritness, spiritedness. Excuse me. They are gossip, spreading rumors, slanderous,
haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of new forms
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of evil, disobedient and disrespectful to parents, without understanding, their untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful,
without pity, although they know God's righteous decree and his
judgments that those who do such things deserve deserve death,
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yet they not only do them, but they even enthusiastically
approve and tolerate others who practice them. That's the world
right now. That's America right now, that's the entertainment industry
right now, that's politics right now, that's mainstream media right now.
That's the world. That's even at times the church. And
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when I say church, I simply mean the collective. I
don't believe, Nope, almost go on, let me say that,
that's just the collective of what we call the church.
So the people in the days of Noah, they didn't care,
they paid little attention to God or the things of God,
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and they faced judgment because of it. Days of Noah
popular topic. I started talking about it in twenty ten.
It's really big now fourteen years later and people pumping
out revelation. I did the finger thing revelation. That's old
news to anybody that listened to the porch or reflections
in the dark. But there have been respected authors and
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teachers recount for us their perspective of what it was
like in the days of Noah. Sin, debauchery, demonic manifestations
were common place, everyday things among the people who just
gave themselves over to those desires. The day was also filled,
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I believe, with the presence of the fallen angels and
the demonic human hybrid offspring known as the Nephelom. Yet
even in the midst of all that, even in the
midst of the ugliness and the sin, and the cannibalism
and all the horrible thing that would make any horror
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movie pale in comparison, there was still hope. Go with
me to Genesis six, starting with verse three. The Lord
had had enough, and he said, my spirit shall not
strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh. Yet
his days shall be one hundred and twenty years. There
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were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward,
when the sons of God came into the daughters of
men and they bore children to them. These were the
mighty men who were of old men of renowned. I
believe this were the legends. The Greek and Roman legends
came from those offspring verse five. Then the Lord saw
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that the wickedness of man was great in the earth,
and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart
was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that
he had made man on the earth, and he was
grieved in his heart. So Lord said, I will destroy man,
whom I have created from the face of the earth,
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both man and beast, creeping things and birds of the air.
For I am sorry that I have made them. And
I think that the distinction there with man and beast,
creeping things and bird of the year. They were the
things that the fallen watchers had defiled, whether through genetic
manipulation or just downright beast reality. Verse eight offers hope,
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but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man,
perfect in his generations, meaning his bloodlines. Noah walked with God,
and Noah begot three sons, shem Ham and Jaffid. The
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earth was also corrupt before God, and the earth was
filled with violence. So God looked upon the earth. Indeed
it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way
on the earth. So in the midst of all that
is Noah, whose name name means rest. He's the son
of Lemech, descendant of Adam in the line of Seth,
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and he's survivor of the flood. He was a just
man his bloodline. He was perfect, he was unblemished. He
was righteous, lawful, in good standing. He was correct with God.
Why Noah was a man who lived in accordance with
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God's revealed will, unlike all the others of his time. Moses,
in his description of Noah, emphasizes Noah's unusual righteousness for
a man living among the spiritually degenerate humanity of his day.
Wouldn't you like to be called a Noah? Wouldn't you
like God to look at you and say, Hey, look
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at him. He's just like Noah, unusually righteous in a
time of spiritual degenerous seven to eleven. The Lord takes
pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope
in his mercy. See, you've got to hope in his mercy.
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There has to be hope in your heart, no matter
how bad the storm gets, no matter how crazy and
destructive what you see with your eyes, there has to
be hope in your heart. To hoping God is to
stand in awe of Him and his power, with the
confidence that God will faithfully perform his word. Yes, he
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is as good as his word. Hope becomes trust in
the righteous character of God. Peter says in Tewo Peter two,
starting verse six and turning the cities of Sodom and
Gomorrah into ashes, condemn them to destruction, making them an
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example to those who afterward would live ungodly and delivered
righteous lot who was oppressed by the healthy conduct of
the wicked. For that righteous man dwelling among them tormented
his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and
hearing their lawless deeds. You know, it should bother us
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when we see these things. It should bother our spirits.
We shouldn't hate the people, we shouldn't speak condemnation upon them,
but it should offend us, should disturb us. But mankind,
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even in the midst of all of that, was given
hope by a loving, heavenly Father through a man untouched
and untainted by the sins of the day. Because of
know was purity and righteousness before God, we were given
another chance. I also believe it's part of what I
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teach when I do the seminars on this topic of
the Nephilom. I believe Noah's bloodline were the only ones
that had not been tainted by the interbreeding and the
whatever it was the fallen watchers were doing. So when
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judgment fell inside m Agemora, somebody found favor. You're going
to find favor. You will find favor with God in
the time of fire and brimsamble. I won't be here,
neither will you, but others will see it. Now. Will
there be a Noah in that time?
Speaker 2 (24:36):
You know?
Speaker 1 (24:36):
I don't know maybe we know that not all of
the Messianic Jews of that day die, so maybe some
find favor. Angels was sent to guide them to safety.
In a literal fulfillment of Psalm ninety one, verse eight.
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Only with their eyes they saw reward of the wicked,
and it did not come near them except for Lot's wife.
Noah's blood and Lot's favor are shadows of the protection
and favor of the Church through our personal relationship with Yeshiah,
with Jesus, they're being born again of the Holy Spirit
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by the blood of the Lamb shed on the wooden cross.
Favor has been given to us through our names being
written in the Lamb's Book of Life. In that blood,
we will not see the rain of fire that will
befall satan seed, that will befall ungodly, unrighteous mankind. So
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no matter how bad it looks in this storm, have hope. See,
we are not victims, but victors in the war between
light and darkness. As believers, we are not cannon fodder.
We are not you know, if you remember in the
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Civil War, they put the young and those that couldn't
fight well up in those front lines, or those that
were expendable. We're not expendable in this war between Heaven
and the fallen angels. Anytime I see movies where mankind
is caught in the middle and destroyed, I go, Ah,
you guys don't really know what you're talking about. More
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than likely likely Satan wrote this script Romans eight, starting
verse thirty one. And just consider everything I just said,
What then shall we say to these things? If God
is for us, who can be against us? He who
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did not spare his own son, but delivered him up
for us all, how shall he not with him also
freely give us all things? Who shall bring a charge
against God's elect It is God who justifies. Who is
he who condemns. It is Messiah, who died and furthermore
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has risen, who is even at the right hand of God,
who also makes intercession for us. Who then shall separate
us from the love of Messiah? Shall tribulation or distress,
or persecution, or famine, or nakedness or peril or sword?
As it is written, for your sake, we are killed
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all day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors
through Him who loved us, For I am persuaded that
neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers,
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nor things present, nor things to come, nor height nor depth,
nor any other created thing shall be able to separate
us from the Love of God, which is in Messiah Yeshua,
our Lord. Not tribulation, not demonic attack, Not anything hociton
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in the fallen have designed or done, or could do
or is doing, can separate you from that love. So
as the darkness covers the earth, and a deeper darkness
than people, don't despair, arise and shine in full confidence
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that greater is he who is in you than he
who is against you. Hold on to the hope that
before He takes us out of this world, we can
be and are more than conquerors through He who loves
us and died for us. Hope. Your hope is not
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what you see. Your hope is in what's unseen His promises.
By faith that you receive. Even even the writers of
the Old Testament, even the prophets and those that wrote
back then, and David, they got it. Proverbs twenty three
seventeen and eighteen. Do not let your heart envy sinners,
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but be zealous for the fear of the Lord all day,
for surely there is a hereafter, and your hope will
not be cut off. Psalm thirty three, starting verse eighteen. Behold,
the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him,
on those who hope in his mercy to deliver their
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soul from death, to keep them alive and fabine. Our
soul waits for the Lord. He is our help and
our shield. You notice Paul touches on that a lot.
Romans fifteen thirteen. Now may the God of Hope fill
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you with all joy and peace in believing that you
may abound in power, that you may abound in hope
by the power of the Holy Spirit. See the Holy
Spirit in you. The hope of glory is your seal.
It's your promise, that your confirmation. No, not the kind
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that I went through where they slapped you, and you
know you were white and you tap dance. You did
a little song and dance and there was a big note.
We didn't do the song. Well, we did a little
bit of a song and dance, but there was no
tap dancing. Anyway. We have hope, we're marked by the blood,
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we're filled with the spirit. We get to the the
end there aims in the book you have a reservation.
The eschatological orientation of the New Testament is all about
the future hope that grows out of the Old Testament,
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prophetic anticipat anticipation of God's future deliverance. How can we
avoid that topic? How does the church avoid talking about this?
You know? I see a lot of these videos on YouTube,
and I try not to watch them because they frustrate me.
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Sometimes people send them to me, and at a courtesy,
I'll watch it for a little while. And then I
realized this. This is not the message of the Lord.
This is an ear tickling, make the people feel good message.
This isn't about hey guys, it's about to get really bad,
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but it's going to be okay. You will endure no
matter what you go through. Isaiah twenty five, verse nine,
shall be said. In that day, behold our God, upon
whom we have waited and hoped that he might save us.
This is the Lord we have waited for. We will
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be glad and rejoice in his salvation. Now may the
God of Hope again, the God of hope. May the
God of Hope fill you with all joy and peace.
As you believe and abound in hope, because the power
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of the Rua kak Kadesh inside of you gives it
to you. It's one of the fruit of the spirit.
The Nelson Study Bible says, hope, he who plows should plow,
and hope, he who threshes threshes in hope. That's First
Corinthians of nine ten. But hope is the Greek term
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elpus e lpis. It's a confident expectation or an anticipation.
It's not wishful thinking. You know it will happen. The
use of the word hope in this context is towards
the Gentiles and Romans who knew nothing about or little
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about the Messiah, who were anticipating his coming. See, had
they had gotten saved, they had gotten born again. But
unlike the Jews who had a deep knowledge of Messiah,
they didn't really get it. But all we have to
do is look at Cornelius in Act ten and realize
that there were Gentiles that were anticipating the coming of
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the Jewish Messiah. So you sure it was sent, but
not only for the salvation of the Jews, but also
for the gentiles. Because God, our Father, is the author
of our salvation. We can call him the God of hope,
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for he has given us hope. If you don't have hope,
something's wrong. Finds complete expository Dictionary of Old and New
Testament Words. Talks about the word hope of the phrase
in Romans fifteen thirteen. God has spoken of the God
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of hope the author. He's not the subject of it.
He writes it, he creates it. Hope is a factor
in salvation. When you get saved, you have hope. And
it's the end result of waiting for the coming of
the Lord, waiting for the coming of Messiah. It's what
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anchors you in the storm. Brothers and sisters, listen to me,
and I mean, I know you are. And usually if
I say brothers and sisters, listen to me, means what
I'm about to say is for emphasis, very serious. And
I know I fool around and I crack jokes or
I do silly things, and part of that's just my personality,
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and the other part is, you know, to break up
the seriousness of the topics. This storm is coming. It's honest,
already it's begun. We're not completely enveloped yet, but we
will be. And you may see some sunshine through the clouds,
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And don't think that that's an indicator that the storm
is over. That's just a break in the storm. It's
going to happen, whether we want it to or not,
whether we like it or not. We're going to see
things that are going to deeply upset us. They're going
to hurt us. Hebrew six, starting verse seventeen. While I tried,
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a sadness come over me when I said that, Hebrew six,
verse seventeen. Thus got determining to show more abundantly to
the heirs of promise, who are the children of Abraham.
The immutability of his counsel confirmed it by an oath
that by two immutable things in which it is impossible
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for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who
have fled for refuge, to lay hope, to lay hold
of the hope set before us. It is verse nineteen,
Hebrew six. This hope we have is an anchor of
the soul, both sure and steadfast, which enters the presence
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behind the veil runner has entered for us, even Yeshua
having become high priest forever according to the order of
Melchizedek hah Elijah. Now you and I have this hope.
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It is a sure, steadfast anchor. The soul cannot slip,
and it cannot break down under whatever steps upon it
or pulls at it. It hope, this hope reaches Father
and enters into the very certainty of the presence within
the veil. See Yeshua of the Order of Melchizedeck a
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high priest of the Order of Melchizedek isn't like Aaron.
See when Aaron became high priest Moses' brother. In Leviticus sixteen,
verse two, the Lord said to Moses, tell Aaron, your brother,
he must not come at all times into the Holy
of Holies with in the veil before the mercy seat,
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upon the ark, lest he die, For I will appear
in the cloud on the mercy seat. He couldn't just
come in, He couldn't just walk in there. He didn't
have access to the Holy of Holy he didn't have
access to the throne room. But because we have a
perpetual high priest sitting at the right hand of God,
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sitting at the right hand of the Father, we have
access to a greater glory. And because we know that
he sits there interceding for us, there's an expectation of
the unseen reality that no matter what the end result
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of the storm is, it's going to be okay. We
have hope from suffering the glory. Nobody wants to suffer.
I haven't met anybody that says, hey, give me a
pounds and a half of that suffering. I really like that.
No nobody says that, not that anybody I know of.
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You know it's going to happen. You accept it, but
you don't go looking for it. Romans eight, verse eighteen.
For I consider, Paul says that the sufferings of this
present time are not worthy to be compared with the
glory which shall be revealed in us, for the earnest
expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of
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the sons of God. So the creation was subjected to futility,
not willingly, but because of him who subjected it. Hope
because the creation itself also will be delivered from the
bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children
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of God. Nelson's Study Bible says, as the sufferings of
this present age are slight when compared with the glory. Later,
Paul's calls the sufferings light affliction compared to the eternal
weight of glory. See, all of this is in the word.
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It's all right there. If you would open your bibles
and you would read and let the spirit guide you
go to sections. I give you all these scriptures. I
give you a lot of scriptures. I give you a
lot to chew on. I give you this giant buffet
the way I was taught, the way it was given
to me by Pastor Shelley. And you can eat as
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much as you want. You can nibble here, nibble there,
but you can keep coming back. And that's why you
can download these things and re listen to them. And
if you have the scriptures the list, you can go
to them and highlight them. And so there it is.
I see it now. Therefore, don't we don't lose heart?
Tewod Corinthians four, verse sixteen. Therefore we do not lose heart.
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Hear that, don't lose heart. Even though our outward man
is perishing, Yet the inward man is being renewed day
by day. For our light affliction, which is but for
a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding
and eternal weight of glory. While We do not look
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at the things which are seen, but at the things
which are not seen. For the things which are seen
are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
So you have hope. You have hope at the end
of a retirement plan. Did you know that you have
a divine compensation package? It's right yeah, I'm telling you,
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it's right there. In Matthew nineteen twenty nine, everyone who
has left houses or brothers or sisters, or father or
mother or wife for children or lands, for my namesake,
shall we receive one hundredfold and inherit eternal life. Earnest
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expectation literally means to watch with an outstretched outstreached, stretched neck.
That was easy for me to say, No, it wasn't.
I'll say it again. That means to watch with outstretched necks,
like you're looking for it. You're straining your neck to
see it. We impatiently wait for the revealing of the
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Lord in his coming creation, awaits the coming glory because
it'll be delivered. I weep a creation. I weep and
how it struggles, and it's what's happened to this world
and the animals. You're looking at California right now, you're
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seeing all that destruction and the human destruction, the human element.
But I also think about the animals. They didn't deserve this,
They didn't do this to themselves. Man did it. But
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we live in a fallen world and it affects everything
in it. But someday it won't be that way. Whole creation,
groans and laborers with birth pangs together until now. Not
only that, but we also have the first fruits of
the spirit, even we ourselves grown within ourselves, eagerly awaiting
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for the adoption the redemption of our body. For we
were saved in this hope. But hope that is seen
is not hope. For why does one still hope for
what he has for what he sees? But if we
hope for what we do not see, we eagerly hope
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wait for it with persevere Remember, hope is the constant
expectation of an unseen reality. You and I are saved
by faith, but our hope is in the return of
the Messiah and all of his glory and our complete
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deliverances from our sinful natures and from the sinful world.
See that's where I think a Lot's wife becomes an
example of the church that isn't ready. Their hope is
not in where they're going. Their hope is in still
went within where they've been. But if we hope for
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what is still unseen by us, we wait for it
with patience and composure, which means we are willing to
endure the present storm. So whatever's going on right now, wait, wait,
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wait for it with perseverance, be willing to endure what's
going on now for what will be endure the present. See,
that's what I believe trips us up. We're so caught
up in what we see. We're not looking in faith.
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Walk by faith, not by sight. Easier said than done.
Sometimes things getting our eyes, sometimes things get in our
head and we take our eyes off the prize, we
take our eyes off the hope and start thinking about
what's happening now, And oh, my goodness, and you're in
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the middle of that storm and it's going to rip
the roof of the house, and it's coming and it's
going to take everything, and we're not going to survive.
In the minute you start thinking that way, you start
to die inside. The fear overcomes you. You get weighed
down by the darkness. You got to shake that off.
The negative words the negative feelings. Don't accept them, shake
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it off, reject it, say no, I rebuke that in
the name of You. Sure I have hope. I look
forward confidently and wait for the coming of his son
from heaven, whom he raised from the dead ya Shua,
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who personally rescues us from the coming wrath and draws
us to himself, granting us all the privileges and rewards
of a new life with him one Thessalonians one ten.
I believe this is another indicator that the church will
not suffer the wrath and be snatched out here before
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it happens. Why again, why would anybody want to be here? Well, well,
there's nothing in the Bible about rapture. Yeah, there's plenty
of things in the Bible about rapture. We have examples
of rapture in Elijah. We have Elijah snatched out of
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here physically. We have a lot saved and brought out
of the fire and the flames and escaping it, not
going through it. We've got so many examples of every
aspect of it. But you gotta believe what you want
to believe. I'm going to believe what the Word says.
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Two Peter three verse ten. But the day of the
Lord will come as a thief in the night, in
which the heavens will pass away with a great noise,
and the elements will melt with fervent heat. Both the
earth and the works that are in it will be
burned up. Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved,
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what manner of persons ought to be in holy conduct
and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the
Day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved,
being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat. Nevertheless,
we are, according to his promise, that we, according to
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his promise, look for a new heavens and a new
Earth in which righteousness dwells. And I don't believe this
is atomic blast in the sense of man made bombs.
It's been proven scientifically or theorized. Time is slowing down.
Doctor Truck Missler used to do some really in depth
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teachings on that time is slowing down. As things slow down,
they start to slam into each other. As these elements
in the heavens begin to slam into each other, there
will be cataclysmic events, explosions, fire in the heavens. With
the heavens are on fire, the air will burn. God
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doesn't need man made bombs to bring judgment. He can
do it all on his own. Another reason why I
do not believe the Church can be here at that time.
Proverbs ten twenty eight. The hope of the righteous will
be gladness, but the expectation of the wicked will perish. Now,
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before I get into this section, let me take a
sip ah that was good. Thank you. I don't hold
any joy, nor do I wish this upon anyone. I'm
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not gleeful when I see people judged and destroyed. As
believers in Yeshuah, we should have compassion. That doesn't mean
I'll condone it. That doesn't mean I want to see
them escape it unless they get saved. But my point
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is this, if you're gleeful in the destruction of people,
you need to check yourself as the love of God
even in you. Romans one, verse eighteen. For the wrath
of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and
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unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, Because
what may be made known of God is manifest in them.
For God has shown it to them, for since the
creation of the world, his invisible attributes are clearly seen,
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being understood by things that are made, even His eternal
power and Godhead. So they are without excuse, because although
they knew God, they did not glorify him as God,
nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and
their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise, they
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became fools and changed the glory of the incorruptible God
into an image made like corruptible man, and birds and
four footed animals and creeping things. Therefore, God also gave
them up to uncleanness in the lust of their hearts,
to dishonor their bodies among themselves who exchanged the truth
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of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the
creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever men.
They knew better, and they did it anyway. Later in
Romans chapter two, studying verse five, Paul continues this thought,
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But in accordance with your hardness and impenitent heart, you
are treasuring up for yourselves wrath in the day of
wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, who
will render to each one according to his deeds, eternal
life to those who, by patient continuance in doing good,
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seek for glory, honor, and immortality. But those who are
self seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness,
indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish on every soul of
man who does evil, of the Jew first, and also
of the Greek. But glory and honor and peace to
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everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first,
and also the Greek. For there is no partiality with God.
There's a time coming, and I believe it's very close
when that hope that we hold in our heart is
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going to get tested. That's why you got to feed
it every day. You've got to read this word every day.
If you have to re listen to these podcasts, they're free.
Just download them, keep them, share them. But whatever it
takes to keep you hopeful, do it. Prophet Amos, chapter four,
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verse thirteen says, behold he the capital h he who
forms mountains and creates the wind, who declares the man
what his thought is and makes the morning darkness, who
treads the high places of the earth, The Lord, God
of Host his name Micah says in one to three. Behold,
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the Lord is coming out of his place. He will
come down and tread on the high places of the earth.
The Lord is coming, The King is coming, and the
unrighteous will reap the whirlwind of the Lord in his coming.
But we will be saved and hidden in the shelter
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of his wings. Psalm sixty one, verse one. Hear my cry, O, God,
attend to my prayer from the end of the earth.
I will cry to you when my heart is overwhelmed.
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Lead me to the rock that is higher than I
For you have been a shelter for me, a strong
tower from the enemy. I will abide your tabernacle forever.
I will trust than the shelter of your wings. Remember,
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refuge and shelter are indechangeable in the Bible. Those are
the places of remedy and safety. You know, a storm,
warning comes, you got to go find safety. You've got
to find covering. Sometimes we're told to shelter in place.
You've waited too long. Stay where you are, don't wait
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too long. You have an opportunity each and every day
of your life. People have an opportunity. You can offer
it to them. Somebody wrote me the other day and
they said their resolution for twenty twenty five is to
be more active in their church. And I knew I
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understood what she meant, and rather than analyzing it and
tearing apart and simply wrote back, Remember you are the church.
The place you go to where you fellowship and you
gather together as one is not the church. You are
the church. So you can be the church wherever you are.
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Wherever you are, you can be the Church. You can
shine his light, you can get people a good word,
you can praise God, you can lead them to the Lord.
You are the Church everywhere you go. Possaes walk in
the spirit, and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh.
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I think selfishness is the lust of the flesh. Well,
I don't want to embarrass myself, and I really don't
want to have to tell this person anything. Well, you
need to shine, You need to shine, You need to
be what he needs you be in this moment. So
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i'mone thirty verse five and six. I wait for the Lord.
My soul waits. And in his word, I do hope
my soul waits for the Lord more than those who
watch for the morning. Yes, more than those who watch
for the morning. It's nighttime, and you're waiting for the morning.
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Our soul hopes and waits for the Lord. David reminds
he's reminding himself what he's reminding us that in times
of great distress, his only hope is the rock higher
than I storm's coming. Take shelter, dig those. He'll assume
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a position, a defensive position to resist the coming difficulties. James,
Chapter five, verses eight, ten and eleven. You also be
patient to establish your hearts, for the coming of the
Lord is at hand. My brethren, take the prophets who
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spoke in the name of the Lord, being very specific
which prophets. He's talking about those who spoke in the
name of the Lord as an example of suffering and patience. Indeed,
we count them blessed to endure it. You have heard
of the perseverance of Job and seen the end intended
by the Lord, that the Lord is very compassionate, compassionate,
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and merciful. Oswald Chambers's perseverance is more than endurance. It
is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what
we are looking for is going to happen. God warned
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us in his word through the prophets to be ready.
You Sure warned us in his word to be ready.
The disciples have warned us in their writings to be ready.
There's no excuse. We should be ready. And if you are,
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say I'm ready. Perseverance and hope in the storm, no
matter how bad it gets, no matter what you see
with your eyes, keep your eyes on Him. On where
you're going, and what's in front of you, not what's
behind you. Father, Abba, Papa, Daddy, And the name of you, Sure,
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the name above all names, the King of kings and
Lord of lords, the one who will come and judge
the living and the dead. We praise you, We love you,
We hope in you, We thank you. We believe and
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receive by faith all that you have for us and
all that you're doing. We know that you are as
good as your word. Lord, Touch us right now through
your Holy Spirit, Touch my brothers and my sisters, and
I fill us with all that we need of you.
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To be beacons of hope, beacons of light, beacons of
a way out, so that those that waited too long
and didn't even know that there was a shelter to
come to, can get a glimpse and go. Hey, over there.
That's where I need to be. I need to get there.
And if we need to go get them, You'll empower
us to do that, to rescue them, to draw them
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out of the darkness, draw them out of the powers,
the hold of the powers of darkness, and set them free,
that they can be redeemed, be reconciled, they can come home.
But Lord, while we stay here, we stand fast in
the faith and in the power of your name, doing
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all that You've called us to do, and we do
it for your glory. Then your shoe his name, Amen.
May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord,
May I don't I make his face to shine upon
you and be gracious to you. May the Lord I
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his countenance upon you and give you peace. Give you
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So we're still talking about the storm warning that the
Lord gave us, both natural and supernatural. Merriam Webster Dictionary
defines the storm warning as a notification that gives warning
of an approaching storm, a happening that warns of a
difficult or involved state of affairs lying ahead. I think
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that pretty much covers it in the natural. We see
them on TV, the internet, or you have a weather
app and we're warned the possibility of severe weather, which
gives us time to prepare, doesn't mean it will happen,
but it could happen, and you should prepare accordingly. With
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the Bible, if there's a warning in there, it will happen,
and even more so we should prepare accordingly. Go with
me to a storm warning from the Lord Matthew twenty four,
starting verse four. Take heed. Then no one deceives you,
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for many will come in my name saying I am
the Messiah, and will deceive many. And you will hear
of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are
not troubled, for all these things must come to pass.
But the end is not yet. For nation will rise
against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there'll be famines
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and pestilences and earthquakes in various places. All these are
the beginning of the sorrows. Then they will deliver you
up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be
hated by all nations. For my name's sake. Then many
will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate
one another. Then many prophets, false prophets. I'm sorry, let's
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be clear here. False prophets will rise up and deceive many.
And because lawlessness, lawlessness which is sin, will abound, the
love of many will grow cold. But he or she
who endures to the end shall be saved. And this
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gospel of the Kingdom will be preached in all the
world as a witness to all the nations. And then
the end will come. Well, when is that Lord, What
are the signs that we should look for? Well, if
you jump down of verse thirty six, he gives us indicators.
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But of that day and hour no one knows, not
even the angels of heaven, but my Father only. But
as the days of Noah were, so also will be
the coming of the Son of Man be. For as
in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking,
marrying and giving in marriage until the day that Noah
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entered the ark. And remember that was seven days before
the rain came, that the Lord locked them in and
did not know the flood came and took them all away,
So also will the coming of the Son of Man be.
Then two men will be in a field, one will
be taken. In the other left, two women will be
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grinding at the mill. One will be taken and the
other left. Watch therefore, for you do not know the
hour your Lord is coming. But know this that if
the master of the house had known what hour the
thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed
his house to be broken into. Therefore, you also be
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ready for the Sun of Man. It's coming at an
hour you do not expect the days of Noah. So
also will it be in the days of this coming
of the Sun of Man. We see it again in
Luke seventeen, starting verse twenty two, Lord said, the days
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will come when you will desire to see one of
the days of the Sun of Man, and you will
not see it. And they will say to you look
here or look there. Do not go after them or
follow them. For as the lightning flashes out of one
part of under heaven shines to the other part under heaven,
so also the sun of Man will be in his day.
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But first he must suffer many things and be rejected
by this generation. And as it was in the days
of Noah, so it will be also in the day
of the Son of Man. They ain't they drank, they married, wives,
they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah
entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. Likewise,
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as it was also in the days of Lot. They ate,
they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built.
But on the day that Lot went out of salm,
soldom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed
them all. Even so, will it be in the day
when of the Son of Man is revealed, people will say, look,
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there is the Son of Man. False messiahs, false teachers,
false preachers, false prophets have arisen throughout history. They'll talk
to you about a Messiah. They'll talk to you about
a Christ or a Christ's consciousness, but they won't be
referring to Jesus up Nazareth is Shua. But the Messiah
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has told us to look for these signs. He will
be the only one who can do these things. As
the lightning flashes. When he returns, it will be sudden,
it will be a very extreme suddenly, and everyone will
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know it. Lightning is common for storms. It's sudden, it's visible,
and it's frightening at times. And when the Lord returns,
many will be frightened. He will come quickly and obviously,
and it'll be no doubt as to what has occurred.
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But interestingly, in Luke seventeen he refers to in Noah's
days in the days of Lot. If you want to
know about Noah, go to Genesis chapter six through nine,
and then Genesis eighteen, verse sixteen through nineteen through twenty nine.
For Lot. These are the stories of cataclysmic judgment against
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the wickedness of mankind. There's an interesting substory with Lot
that I think really applies to where we are today,
both in the world and the church. They were told
not to look back that once they started leaving, don't
look back. Lot's wife lingered behind, and she looked back.
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She looked back longingly at Sodom in Genesis nineteen, verse
twenty six, and she turned into a pillar of salt.
More than likely she got consumed in the fire and
the brimstone, or her disobedience just turned her into a
pillar of salt. There's a pillar there that they say
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is Lot's wife. And I don't think anybody's ever done
like a sonogram or you know, did something and look
on the inside of the rock. But be that as
it may, it's an indicator to me. I believe Lot's
wife represents part of the church that it's supposed to
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know better. They're supposed to be looking towards the blessed coming,
looking towards the blessed hope, looking for getting out of
this world. But some are going to look back longingly
at their friends, their families, their homes, their cars, whatever
it may be, and it's going to cost them dearly.
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Lot's wife probably had family there, her son in laws
were there, they didn't come with them. They mocked a lot,
and the wives left. Anyway, You're going to have family
members do the same. You can't look back. Lots His
wife represents those who are attached to their earthly things,
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whose hearts are still in this world, and they will
perish because they're looking towards their old life and not
the higher calling. In the days of now, people paid
little attention to God. They face judgment as a result
of their lack of concern about the things of God.
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And it'll be just the same when you show it
comes back Look twenty one. Sorry verse twenty four, but
take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down
with carousing and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and
that day capital d come on you unexpectedly, for it
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will come as a snare on all those who dwell
on the face of the whole earth. Watch therefore, and
pray always that you may be counted wordy to escape
all these things that will come to pass, and to
stand before the Son of Man. I believe we are
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living right now in a time so specific and so
close to what's being described here, maybe more so than
ever before. And throughout the New Testament and even the
Old Testament, the warnings of the prophets, the warnings of
Paul and James and John and Peter. We're all to
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prepare us for that day. How often you hear about
it anymore? How many churches talk about that? That's not
a feel good message. How many of them remind you, Oh,
by the way, you got to get ready. You better
be ready, you better be packed to go. Train's coming.
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It's going to roll in, and it's gonna roll right out.
No time to say goodbye, no time to take pictures.
Whatever you need you'll have with you. But the unsaved,
ungodly world, they could care less, and Paul and talking
to the gentile believers in Rome starts his message out
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about that in romans Ion, starting verse twenty eight. And
since they did not see fit to acknowledge God or
consider him worth knowing as their creator, God gave them
over to a depraved mind to do things which are
improper and repulsive, until they were filled, permeated, saturated with
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every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice,
and mean spiritness, spiritedness. Excuse me. They are gossip, spreading rumors, slanderous,
haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of new forms
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of evil, disobedient and disrespectful to parents, without understanding, their untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful,
without pity, although they know God's righteous decree and his
judgments that those who do such things deserve deserve death,
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yet they not only do them, but they even enthusiastically
approve and tolerate others who practice them. That's the world
right now. That's America right now, that's the entertainment industry
right now, that's politics right now, that's mainstream media right now.
That's the world. That's even at times the church. And
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when I say church, I simply mean the collective. I
don't believe, Nope, almost go on, let me say that,
that's just the collective of what we call the church.
So the people in the days of Noah, they didn't care,
they paid little attention to God or the things of God,
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and they faced judgment because of it. Days of Noah
popular topic. I started talking about it in twenty ten.
It's really big now fourteen years later and people pumping
out revelation. I did the finger thing revelation. That's old
news to anybody that listened to the porch or reflections
in the dark. But there have been respected authors and
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teachers recount for us their perspective of what it was
like in the days of Noah. Sin, debauchery, demonic manifestations
were common place, everyday things among the people who just
gave themselves over to those desires. The day was also filled,
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I believe, with the presence of the fallen angels and
the demonic human hybrid offspring known as the Nephelom. Yet
even in the midst of all that, even in the
midst of the ugliness and the sin, and the cannibalism
and all the horrible thing that would make any horror
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movie pale in comparison, there was still hope. Go with
me to Genesis six, starting with verse three. The Lord
had had enough, and he said, my spirit shall not
strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh. Yet
his days shall be one hundred and twenty years. There
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were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward,
when the sons of God came into the daughters of
men and they bore children to them. These were the
mighty men who were of old men of renowned. I
believe this were the legends. The Greek and Roman legends
came from those offspring verse five. Then the Lord saw
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that the wickedness of man was great in the earth,
and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart
was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that
he had made man on the earth, and he was
grieved in his heart. So Lord said, I will destroy man,
whom I have created from the face of the earth,
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both man and beast, creeping things and birds of the air.
For I am sorry that I have made them. And
I think that the distinction there with man and beast,
creeping things and bird of the year. They were the
things that the fallen watchers had defiled, whether through genetic
manipulation or just downright beast reality. Verse eight offers hope,
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but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man,
perfect in his generations, meaning his bloodlines. Noah walked with God,
and Noah begot three sons, shem Ham and Jaffid. The
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earth was also corrupt before God, and the earth was
filled with violence. So God looked upon the earth. Indeed
it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way
on the earth. So in the midst of all that
is Noah, whose name name means rest. He's the son
of Lemech, descendant of Adam in the line of Seth,
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and he's survivor of the flood. He was a just
man his bloodline. He was perfect, he was unblemished. He
was righteous, lawful, in good standing. He was correct with God.
Why Noah was a man who lived in accordance with
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God's revealed will, unlike all the others of his time. Moses,
in his description of Noah, emphasizes Noah's unusual righteousness for
a man living among the spiritually degenerate humanity of his day.
Wouldn't you like to be called a Noah? Wouldn't you
like God to look at you and say, Hey, look
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at him. He's just like Noah, unusually righteous in a
time of spiritual degenerous seven to eleven. The Lord takes
pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope
in his mercy. See, you've got to hope in his mercy.
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There has to be hope in your heart, no matter
how bad the storm gets, no matter how crazy and
destructive what you see with your eyes, there has to
be hope in your heart. To hoping God is to
stand in awe of Him and his power, with the
confidence that God will faithfully perform his word. Yes, he
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is as good as his word. Hope becomes trust in
the righteous character of God. Peter says in Tewo Peter two,
starting verse six and turning the cities of Sodom and
Gomorrah into ashes, condemn them to destruction, making them an
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example to those who afterward would live ungodly and delivered
righteous lot who was oppressed by the healthy conduct of
the wicked. For that righteous man dwelling among them tormented
his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and
hearing their lawless deeds. You know, it should bother us
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when we see these things. It should bother our spirits.
We shouldn't hate the people, we shouldn't speak condemnation upon them,
but it should offend us, should disturb us. But mankind,
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even in the midst of all of that, was given
hope by a loving, heavenly Father through a man untouched
and untainted by the sins of the day. Because of
know was purity and righteousness before God, we were given
another chance. I also believe it's part of what I
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teach when I do the seminars on this topic of
the Nephilom. I believe Noah's bloodline were the only ones
that had not been tainted by the interbreeding and the
whatever it was the fallen watchers were doing. So when
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judgment fell inside m Agemora, somebody found favor. You're going
to find favor. You will find favor with God in
the time of fire and brimsamble. I won't be here,
neither will you, but others will see it. Now. Will
there be a Noah in that time?
Speaker 2 (24:36):
You know?
Speaker 1 (24:36):
I don't know maybe we know that not all of
the Messianic Jews of that day die, so maybe some
find favor. Angels was sent to guide them to safety.
In a literal fulfillment of Psalm ninety one, verse eight.
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Only with their eyes they saw reward of the wicked,
and it did not come near them except for Lot's wife.
Noah's blood and Lot's favor are shadows of the protection
and favor of the Church through our personal relationship with Yeshiah,
with Jesus, they're being born again of the Holy Spirit
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by the blood of the Lamb shed on the wooden cross.
Favor has been given to us through our names being
written in the Lamb's Book of Life. In that blood,
we will not see the rain of fire that will
befall satan seed, that will befall ungodly, unrighteous mankind. So
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no matter how bad it looks in this storm, have hope. See,
we are not victims, but victors in the war between
light and darkness. As believers, we are not cannon fodder.
We are not you know, if you remember in the
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Civil War, they put the young and those that couldn't
fight well up in those front lines, or those that
were expendable. We're not expendable in this war between Heaven
and the fallen angels. Anytime I see movies where mankind
is caught in the middle and destroyed, I go, Ah,
you guys don't really know what you're talking about. More
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than likely likely Satan wrote this script Romans eight, starting
verse thirty one. And just consider everything I just said,
What then shall we say to these things? If God
is for us, who can be against us? He who
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did not spare his own son, but delivered him up
for us all, how shall he not with him also
freely give us all things? Who shall bring a charge
against God's elect It is God who justifies. Who is
he who condemns. It is Messiah, who died and furthermore
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has risen, who is even at the right hand of God,
who also makes intercession for us. Who then shall separate
us from the love of Messiah? Shall tribulation or distress,
or persecution, or famine, or nakedness or peril or sword?
As it is written, for your sake, we are killed
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all day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors
through Him who loved us, For I am persuaded that
neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers,
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nor things present, nor things to come, nor height nor depth,
nor any other created thing shall be able to separate
us from the Love of God, which is in Messiah Yeshua,
our Lord. Not tribulation, not demonic attack, Not anything hociton
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in the fallen have designed or done, or could do
or is doing, can separate you from that love. So
as the darkness covers the earth, and a deeper darkness
than people, don't despair, arise and shine in full confidence
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that greater is he who is in you than he
who is against you. Hold on to the hope that
before He takes us out of this world, we can
be and are more than conquerors through He who loves
us and died for us. Hope. Your hope is not
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what you see. Your hope is in what's unseen His promises.
By faith that you receive. Even even the writers of
the Old Testament, even the prophets and those that wrote
back then, and David, they got it. Proverbs twenty three
seventeen and eighteen. Do not let your heart envy sinners,
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but be zealous for the fear of the Lord all day,
for surely there is a hereafter, and your hope will
not be cut off. Psalm thirty three, starting verse eighteen. Behold,
the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him,
on those who hope in his mercy to deliver their
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soul from death, to keep them alive and fabine. Our
soul waits for the Lord. He is our help and
our shield. You notice Paul touches on that a lot.
Romans fifteen thirteen. Now may the God of Hope fill
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you with all joy and peace in believing that you
may abound in power, that you may abound in hope
by the power of the Holy Spirit. See the Holy
Spirit in you. The hope of glory is your seal.
It's your promise, that your confirmation. No, not the kind
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that I went through where they slapped you, and you
know you were white and you tap dance. You did
a little song and dance and there was a big note.
We didn't do the song. Well, we did a little
bit of a song and dance, but there was no
tap dancing. Anyway. We have hope, we're marked by the blood,
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we're filled with the spirit. We get to the the
end there aims in the book you have a reservation.
The eschatological orientation of the New Testament is all about
the future hope that grows out of the Old Testament,
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prophetic anticipat anticipation of God's future deliverance. How can we
avoid that topic? How does the church avoid talking about this?
You know? I see a lot of these videos on YouTube,
and I try not to watch them because they frustrate me.
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Sometimes people send them to me, and at a courtesy,
I'll watch it for a little while. And then I
realized this. This is not the message of the Lord.
This is an ear tickling, make the people feel good message.
This isn't about hey guys, it's about to get really bad,
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but it's going to be okay. You will endure no
matter what you go through. Isaiah twenty five, verse nine,
shall be said. In that day, behold our God, upon
whom we have waited and hoped that he might save us.
This is the Lord we have waited for. We will
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be glad and rejoice in his salvation. Now may the
God of Hope again, the God of hope. May the
God of Hope fill you with all joy and peace.
As you believe and abound in hope, because the power
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of the Rua kak Kadesh inside of you gives it
to you. It's one of the fruit of the spirit.
The Nelson Study Bible says, hope, he who plows should plow,
and hope, he who threshes threshes in hope. That's First
Corinthians of nine ten. But hope is the Greek term
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elpus e lpis. It's a confident expectation or an anticipation.
It's not wishful thinking. You know it will happen. The
use of the word hope in this context is towards
the Gentiles and Romans who knew nothing about or little
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about the Messiah, who were anticipating his coming. See, had
they had gotten saved, they had gotten born again. But
unlike the Jews who had a deep knowledge of Messiah,
they didn't really get it. But all we have to
do is look at Cornelius in Act ten and realize
that there were Gentiles that were anticipating the coming of
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the Jewish Messiah. So you sure it was sent, but
not only for the salvation of the Jews, but also
for the gentiles. Because God, our Father, is the author
of our salvation. We can call him the God of hope,
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for he has given us hope. If you don't have hope,
something's wrong. Finds complete expository Dictionary of Old and New
Testament Words. Talks about the word hope of the phrase
in Romans fifteen thirteen. God has spoken of the God
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of hope the author. He's not the subject of it.
He writes it, he creates it. Hope is a factor
in salvation. When you get saved, you have hope. And
it's the end result of waiting for the coming of
the Lord, waiting for the coming of Messiah. It's what
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anchors you in the storm. Brothers and sisters, listen to me,
and I mean, I know you are. And usually if
I say brothers and sisters, listen to me, means what
I'm about to say is for emphasis, very serious. And
I know I fool around and I crack jokes or
I do silly things, and part of that's just my personality,
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and the other part is, you know, to break up
the seriousness of the topics. This storm is coming. It's honest,
already it's begun. We're not completely enveloped yet, but we
will be. And you may see some sunshine through the clouds,
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And don't think that that's an indicator that the storm
is over. That's just a break in the storm. It's
going to happen, whether we want it to or not,
whether we like it or not. We're going to see
things that are going to deeply upset us. They're going
to hurt us. Hebrew six, starting verse seventeen. While I tried,
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a sadness come over me when I said that, Hebrew six,
verse seventeen. Thus got determining to show more abundantly to
the heirs of promise, who are the children of Abraham.
The immutability of his counsel confirmed it by an oath
that by two immutable things in which it is impossible
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for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who
have fled for refuge, to lay hope, to lay hold
of the hope set before us. It is verse nineteen,
Hebrew six. This hope we have is an anchor of
the soul, both sure and steadfast, which enters the presence
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behind the veil runner has entered for us, even Yeshua
having become high priest forever according to the order of
Melchizedek hah Elijah. Now you and I have this hope.
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It is a sure, steadfast anchor. The soul cannot slip,
and it cannot break down under whatever steps upon it
or pulls at it. It hope, this hope reaches Father
and enters into the very certainty of the presence within
the veil. See Yeshua of the Order of Melchizedeck a
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high priest of the Order of Melchizedek isn't like Aaron.
See when Aaron became high priest Moses' brother. In Leviticus sixteen,
verse two, the Lord said to Moses, tell Aaron, your brother,
he must not come at all times into the Holy
of Holies with in the veil before the mercy seat,
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upon the ark, lest he die, For I will appear
in the cloud on the mercy seat. He couldn't just
come in, He couldn't just walk in there. He didn't
have access to the Holy of Holy he didn't have
access to the throne room. But because we have a
perpetual high priest sitting at the right hand of God,
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sitting at the right hand of the Father, we have
access to a greater glory. And because we know that
he sits there interceding for us, there's an expectation of
the unseen reality that no matter what the end result
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of the storm is, it's going to be okay. We
have hope from suffering the glory. Nobody wants to suffer.
I haven't met anybody that says, hey, give me a
pounds and a half of that suffering. I really like that.
No nobody says that, not that anybody I know of.
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You know it's going to happen. You accept it, but
you don't go looking for it. Romans eight, verse eighteen.
For I consider, Paul says that the sufferings of this
present time are not worthy to be compared with the
glory which shall be revealed in us, for the earnest
expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of
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the sons of God. So the creation was subjected to futility,
not willingly, but because of him who subjected it. Hope
because the creation itself also will be delivered from the
bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children
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of God. Nelson's Study Bible says, as the sufferings of
this present age are slight when compared with the glory. Later,
Paul's calls the sufferings light affliction compared to the eternal
weight of glory. See, all of this is in the word.
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It's all right there. If you would open your bibles
and you would read and let the spirit guide you
go to sections. I give you all these scriptures. I
give you a lot of scriptures. I give you a
lot to chew on. I give you this giant buffet
the way I was taught, the way it was given
to me by Pastor Shelley. And you can eat as
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much as you want. You can nibble here, nibble there,
but you can keep coming back. And that's why you
can download these things and re listen to them. And
if you have the scriptures the list, you can go
to them and highlight them. And so there it is.
I see it now. Therefore, don't we don't lose heart?
Tewod Corinthians four, verse sixteen. Therefore we do not lose heart.
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Hear that, don't lose heart. Even though our outward man
is perishing, Yet the inward man is being renewed day
by day. For our light affliction, which is but for
a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding
and eternal weight of glory. While We do not look
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at the things which are seen, but at the things
which are not seen. For the things which are seen
are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
So you have hope. You have hope at the end
of a retirement plan. Did you know that you have
a divine compensation package? It's right yeah, I'm telling you,
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it's right there. In Matthew nineteen twenty nine, everyone who
has left houses or brothers or sisters, or father or
mother or wife for children or lands, for my namesake,
shall we receive one hundredfold and inherit eternal life. Earnest
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expectation literally means to watch with an outstretched outstreached, stretched neck.
That was easy for me to say, No, it wasn't.
I'll say it again. That means to watch with outstretched necks,
like you're looking for it. You're straining your neck to
see it. We impatiently wait for the revealing of the
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Lord in his coming creation, awaits the coming glory because
it'll be delivered. I weep a creation. I weep and
how it struggles, and it's what's happened to this world
and the animals. You're looking at California right now, you're
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seeing all that destruction and the human destruction, the human element.
But I also think about the animals. They didn't deserve this,
They didn't do this to themselves. Man did it. But
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we live in a fallen world and it affects everything
in it. But someday it won't be that way. Whole creation,
groans and laborers with birth pangs together until now. Not
only that, but we also have the first fruits of
the spirit, even we ourselves grown within ourselves, eagerly awaiting
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for the adoption the redemption of our body. For we
were saved in this hope. But hope that is seen
is not hope. For why does one still hope for
what he has for what he sees? But if we
hope for what we do not see, we eagerly hope
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wait for it with persevere Remember, hope is the constant
expectation of an unseen reality. You and I are saved
by faith, but our hope is in the return of
the Messiah and all of his glory and our complete
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deliverances from our sinful natures and from the sinful world.
See that's where I think a Lot's wife becomes an
example of the church that isn't ready. Their hope is
not in where they're going. Their hope is in still
went within where they've been. But if we hope for
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what is still unseen by us, we wait for it
with patience and composure, which means we are willing to
endure the present storm. So whatever's going on right now, wait, wait,
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wait for it with perseverance, be willing to endure what's
going on now for what will be endure the present. See,
that's what I believe trips us up. We're so caught
up in what we see. We're not looking in faith.
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Walk by faith, not by sight. Easier said than done.
Sometimes things getting our eyes, sometimes things get in our
head and we take our eyes off the prize, we
take our eyes off the hope and start thinking about
what's happening now, And oh, my goodness, and you're in
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the middle of that storm and it's going to rip
the roof of the house, and it's coming and it's
going to take everything, and we're not going to survive.
In the minute you start thinking that way, you start
to die inside. The fear overcomes you. You get weighed
down by the darkness. You got to shake that off.
The negative words the negative feelings. Don't accept them, shake
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it off, reject it, say no, I rebuke that in
the name of You. Sure I have hope. I look
forward confidently and wait for the coming of his son
from heaven, whom he raised from the dead ya Shua,
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who personally rescues us from the coming wrath and draws
us to himself, granting us all the privileges and rewards
of a new life with him one Thessalonians one ten.
I believe this is another indicator that the church will
not suffer the wrath and be snatched out here before
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it happens. Why again, why would anybody want to be here? Well, well,
there's nothing in the Bible about rapture. Yeah, there's plenty
of things in the Bible about rapture. We have examples
of rapture in Elijah. We have Elijah snatched out of
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here physically. We have a lot saved and brought out
of the fire and the flames and escaping it, not
going through it. We've got so many examples of every
aspect of it. But you gotta believe what you want
to believe. I'm going to believe what the Word says.
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Two Peter three verse ten. But the day of the
Lord will come as a thief in the night, in
which the heavens will pass away with a great noise,
and the elements will melt with fervent heat. Both the
earth and the works that are in it will be
burned up. Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved,
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what manner of persons ought to be in holy conduct
and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the
Day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved,
being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat. Nevertheless,
we are, according to his promise, that we, according to
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his promise, look for a new heavens and a new
Earth in which righteousness dwells. And I don't believe this
is atomic blast in the sense of man made bombs.
It's been proven scientifically or theorized. Time is slowing down.
Doctor Truck Missler used to do some really in depth
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teachings on that time is slowing down. As things slow down,
they start to slam into each other. As these elements
in the heavens begin to slam into each other, there
will be cataclysmic events, explosions, fire in the heavens. With
the heavens are on fire, the air will burn. God
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doesn't need man made bombs to bring judgment. He can
do it all on his own. Another reason why I
do not believe the Church can be here at that time.
Proverbs ten twenty eight. The hope of the righteous will
be gladness, but the expectation of the wicked will perish. Now,
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before I get into this section, let me take a
sip ah that was good. Thank you. I don't hold
any joy, nor do I wish this upon anyone. I'm
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not gleeful when I see people judged and destroyed. As
believers in Yeshuah, we should have compassion. That doesn't mean
I'll condone it. That doesn't mean I want to see
them escape it unless they get saved. But my point
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is this, if you're gleeful in the destruction of people,
you need to check yourself as the love of God
even in you. Romans one, verse eighteen. For the wrath
of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and
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unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, Because
what may be made known of God is manifest in them.
For God has shown it to them, for since the
creation of the world, his invisible attributes are clearly seen,
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being understood by things that are made, even His eternal
power and Godhead. So they are without excuse, because although
they knew God, they did not glorify him as God,
nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and
their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise, they
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became fools and changed the glory of the incorruptible God
into an image made like corruptible man, and birds and
four footed animals and creeping things. Therefore, God also gave
them up to uncleanness in the lust of their hearts,
to dishonor their bodies among themselves who exchanged the truth
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of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the
creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever men.
They knew better, and they did it anyway. Later in
Romans chapter two, studying verse five, Paul continues this thought,
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But in accordance with your hardness and impenitent heart, you
are treasuring up for yourselves wrath in the day of
wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, who
will render to each one according to his deeds, eternal
life to those who, by patient continuance in doing good,
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seek for glory, honor, and immortality. But those who are
self seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness,
indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish on every soul of
man who does evil, of the Jew first, and also
of the Greek. But glory and honor and peace to
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everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first,
and also the Greek. For there is no partiality with God.
There's a time coming, and I believe it's very close
when that hope that we hold in our heart is
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going to get tested. That's why you got to feed
it every day. You've got to read this word every day.
If you have to re listen to these podcasts, they're free.
Just download them, keep them, share them. But whatever it
takes to keep you hopeful, do it. Prophet Amos, chapter four,
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verse thirteen says, behold he the capital h he who
forms mountains and creates the wind, who declares the man
what his thought is and makes the morning darkness, who
treads the high places of the earth, The Lord, God
of Host his name Micah says in one to three. Behold,
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the Lord is coming out of his place. He will
come down and tread on the high places of the earth.
The Lord is coming, The King is coming, and the
unrighteous will reap the whirlwind of the Lord in his coming.
But we will be saved and hidden in the shelter
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of his wings. Psalm sixty one, verse one. Hear my cry, O, God,
attend to my prayer from the end of the earth.
I will cry to you when my heart is overwhelmed.
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Lead me to the rock that is higher than I
For you have been a shelter for me, a strong
tower from the enemy. I will abide your tabernacle forever.
I will trust than the shelter of your wings. Remember,
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refuge and shelter are indechangeable in the Bible. Those are
the places of remedy and safety. You know, a storm,
warning comes, you got to go find safety. You've got
to find covering. Sometimes we're told to shelter in place.
You've waited too long. Stay where you are, don't wait
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too long. You have an opportunity each and every day
of your life. People have an opportunity. You can offer
it to them. Somebody wrote me the other day and
they said their resolution for twenty twenty five is to
be more active in their church. And I knew I
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understood what she meant, and rather than analyzing it and
tearing apart and simply wrote back, Remember you are the church.
The place you go to where you fellowship and you
gather together as one is not the church. You are
the church. So you can be the church wherever you are.
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Wherever you are, you can be the Church. You can
shine his light, you can get people a good word,
you can praise God, you can lead them to the Lord.
You are the Church everywhere you go. Possaes walk in
the spirit, and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh.
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I think selfishness is the lust of the flesh. Well,
I don't want to embarrass myself, and I really don't
want to have to tell this person anything. Well, you
need to shine, You need to shine, You need to
be what he needs you be in this moment. So
(56:54):
i'mone thirty verse five and six. I wait for the Lord.
My soul waits. And in his word, I do hope
my soul waits for the Lord more than those who
watch for the morning. Yes, more than those who watch
for the morning. It's nighttime, and you're waiting for the morning.
(57:16):
Our soul hopes and waits for the Lord. David reminds
he's reminding himself what he's reminding us that in times
of great distress, his only hope is the rock higher
than I storm's coming. Take shelter, dig those. He'll assume
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a position, a defensive position to resist the coming difficulties. James,
Chapter five, verses eight, ten and eleven. You also be
patient to establish your hearts, for the coming of the
Lord is at hand. My brethren, take the prophets who
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spoke in the name of the Lord, being very specific
which prophets. He's talking about those who spoke in the
name of the Lord as an example of suffering and patience. Indeed,
we count them blessed to endure it. You have heard
of the perseverance of Job and seen the end intended
by the Lord, that the Lord is very compassionate, compassionate,
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and merciful. Oswald Chambers's perseverance is more than endurance. It
is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what
we are looking for is going to happen. God warned
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us in his word through the prophets to be ready.
You Sure warned us in his word to be ready.
The disciples have warned us in their writings to be ready.
There's no excuse. We should be ready. And if you are,
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say I'm ready. Perseverance and hope in the storm, no
matter how bad it gets, no matter what you see
with your eyes, keep your eyes on Him. On where
you're going, and what's in front of you, not what's
behind you. Father, Abba, Papa, Daddy, And the name of you, Sure,
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the name above all names, the King of kings and
Lord of lords, the one who will come and judge
the living and the dead. We praise you, We love you,
We hope in you, We thank you. We believe and
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receive by faith all that you have for us and
all that you're doing. We know that you are as
good as your word. Lord, Touch us right now through
your Holy Spirit, Touch my brothers and my sisters, and
I fill us with all that we need of you.
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To be beacons of hope, beacons of light, beacons of
a way out, so that those that waited too long
and didn't even know that there was a shelter to
come to, can get a glimpse and go. Hey, over there.
That's where I need to be. I need to get there.
And if we need to go get them, You'll empower
us to do that, to rescue them, to draw them
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out of the darkness, draw them out of the powers,
the hold of the powers of darkness, and set them free,
that they can be redeemed, be reconciled, they can come home.
But Lord, while we stay here, we stand fast in
the faith and in the power of your name, doing
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all that You've called us to do, and we do
it for your glory. Then your shoe his name, Amen.
May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord,
May I don't I make his face to shine upon
you and be gracious to you. May the Lord I
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don't I your shoe Hamasia, Jesus the Messiah, lift up
his countenance upon you and give you peace. Give you
shall oam. I'm Richard Grund. This has been the Porch
on Firefall Talk Radio
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